Saturday, February 27, 2010

Latitude 25°16' S: The Friday morning Asuncion--Yanguaron, Paraguay local

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February 27, 2010 Asuncion, Paraguay Friday morning on the Asuncion--Yanguaron local. I'm bumping along on an ancient bus. Ramrod strai...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Latitude 36°30' S : All the Rest: Puerto Madryn and Buenos Aires and

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February 10, 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina After the bitter lemon/lemonade day we spent two delicious days at sea. I´d begun to take for...

Latitude 51°40' S: A Basket of Bitter Lemons---the Falkland Islands

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January 27, 2010 Falkland Islands Day 11 Mile 1200 Shortly after rounding the Cape, we exited the Pacific and were now in the South Atlanti...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Latitude 55°58′ S: Rounding Cape Horn!

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January 25, 2010 Day 9 Rounding Cape Horn Mile 1086 This morning I needed no encouragement to get up early. This was going to be a day to re...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Latitude 55º 88´S: Glaciers, Tierra del Fuego, Chile and ¨The End of the World¨

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Day 8 January 24, 2010 The Beagle Channel Mile 1000 The next morning I was still sick and could not bear the idea of leaving the room with ...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Latitude 52°S: The Straits of Magellan, Chile

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Days 6-7 January 22-23 The Straits of Magellan Mile 900 During the night we crossed 50º South. This was why we had come on this trip. The n...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Latitude 45°27' S: Puerto Chacabuco, Chile Our feet are in Patagonia!

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Day 4 Janaury 20, 2010 Puerto Chacabuco, Chile Mile 857 We wake early to grey skies and drizzle. We´ve arrived in Patagonia and are excited...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Latitude 41° 28' S: Daisies in January!: Puerto Montt, Chile

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Day 3 January 19, 2010 Puerto Montt, Chile Mile 368 Fields of daisies--in January!!! I was in my glory. Day three brought us to Puerto Mont...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Latitude 20º 32 S': Valparaiso, Chile: Here We Go!

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January 17, 2010 Valparaiso, Chile Mile 0! It´s hard not to like Santiago in the summer. The days are long and it´s got a Mediterrean climat...

Latitude 20º 32´ S: Santiago, Chile: Two weeks from Lima to Santiago

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Buenos Aires,Argentina 9 de febrero de 2010 From Ica I flew to the Chilean border, crossed to Arica, which sits smack on the Peruvian-Chilea...

Latitude 10º 16´ S: Lima, Peru to the Chilean border

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8 de febrero de 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina It was so good to be back in Lima. This is not one of my favorite cities, but Miraflores, the s...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Latitude 44° 41' 57" N: Platsburgh, NY: How Dan survived December and got to Lima alive and in one piece

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16 de enero de 2010 Santiago,Chile I´ve said this before, and I will say it again...sometimes the hardest part of a vacation is just getting...

Latitude 44° 41' N: Plattsburgh, NY: How Dan came to decide to return to South America

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15 de enero de 2010 Santiago, Chile The genesis of this trip started last May when I was surfing the web, checking out cruises within South ...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

In the End...An Epilogue

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Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico 22 de Noviembre de 2009 In the end I spent about 25 full, wonderful, very satisfying days in Mexico. Almost all...

Mexico: an Evaluation

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Tulum, Quintanta Roo, Mexico 22 de Novmimbre de 2009 The week that I left home for Mexico there was an article in the local newspaper with ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Acapulco--A Day on the Beach

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14 de Noviembre de 2009 Acapulco, Mexico Tuesday. November 10th. In another life I´d be working on this date. In ths new life, though, I´m s...

Day of the Dead--Mexico City, 2009--Photo Essay

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Day of the Dead Mexico City, Mexico October 31--November 1, 2009 Candy Skeletons Fun skeletons were everywhere. El Pan de Muerto --Day of t...